sugar-coated
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2.5
- adjective
- /ˈʃʊɡərˌkoʊtɪd/
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- She enjoyed the sweet taste of the sugar-coated almonds at the fair.
- sugar-coated cereal
- sugar-coated version
Examples
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She was starving and ate two sugar-coated doughnuts and drank cocoa with tons of cream in it.
Fiction book (2002) -
I had visited once two years prior, got a sugar-coated tour, and was hooked.
Blog text (20) -
There is the candy apples and the sugar-coated almonds.
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When I was 9, I wanted to be a "movie star"; when I was 13, I wanted to be a "pop singer"; and for my 16th birthday, I blew out the candles on my sugar-coated cake and wished that when I grew up, I'd "marry rich."
Blog text (6) -
Mass communication technologies that enable access also enable the mass distribution of manipulative messages carefully disguised and sugar-coated.
Academic text (1994) -
The sugar-coated candies were a hit at the birthday party, and all the kids loved them.
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He bought a box of sugar-coated cereal to enjoy with his morning milk.
Synonyms
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1.0
Tasting very sweet because it has a lot of sugar
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3.0
Covered in sugar so it lasts longer, like fruit or nuts
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2.8
Covered with a thin layer of ice or sweet icing
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3.4
Covered with a shiny sweet layer, for example on doughnuts
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1.0
With sugar added to make it sweet
Fruits kept in sugar with a hard shiny coating
Made to taste sweet by adding sugar or honey
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Etymology
Sugar-coated is a simple image: you put a coat, a 'covering', of sugar on something, like sugar on strawberries. So sugar-coated means 'covered with a layer of sugar'.